15 Bizarre Eating Disorders

If you fancy a laugh, or need to kill boredom, check out these top fifteen bizarre facts about eating disorders and learn something new!

Acuphagia – Has the urge to eat sharp objects.Amylophagia – Has the urge to eat washing powder.Cautopyreiophagia – Has the urge to eat burnt matches.Coprophagia – Has the urge to eat faeces.Geomelophagia – Has the urge to eat raw potatoes.Geophagia – Has the urge to eat soil.Gooberphagia – Has the urge to eat peanuts.Lithophagia – Has the urge to eat stones.Mucophagy – Has the urge to eat mucus.Ortharexia Nervosa – This is a disorder where the sufferer is obsessed with eating healthy food.Pagophagia – Has the urge to eat ice.Pica – With this disorder, the sufferer craves and eats non-food substances like rock, sand and others.Plumbophagia – Has the urge to eat lead.Trichophagia – Has the urge to eat hair.Xylophobia – Has the urge to eat wood.